{"id":13104,"date":"2013-03-16T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=13104"},"modified":"2013-03-16T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:58:14","slug":"photo-op-its-spring-on-our-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/photo-op-its-spring-on-our-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Op: It’s Blooming Springtime on Our Hill — In March"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the abutilons we planted last fall — still drenched from last night’s watering. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s spring in our hilly neighborhood. Our magnolia tree<\/a> is finishing up its annual blast of pink and white. But the daffodils<\/a> are still going strong on the hillsides. And so are the camellias,<\/p>\n

\"Varigated<\/a>
I’m not keen on varigated flowers. I’d rather they make up their minds and just be pink or red. But today this varigated camelia made a pretty good case for itself. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

abutilons and Iceland poppies in our front yard. Really happy are the\u00a0 pansies<\/a> in the planter box out on our deck . . .\u00a0 The neighbor’s grey cat heard my camera clicking away in the front yard and she came through the fence to join me.<\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/a>
I bought a planter box full of pansies to decorate our deck at Thanksgiving. They’re still blooming in March. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Daffodils<\/a>
Neighbors planted these daffodils in a pocket park near our house. They’ve since naturalized. Blooms came early this year — late Feburary — and are still going strong. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Iceland<\/a>
Iceland poppy in our front yard. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
Our neighbor’s cat came visiting and got her picture taken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Varigated<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s spring in March and the daffodils are going strong on the local hillsides in the San Francisco Bay Area. So are the camelias, abutilons and iceland poppies in our front yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[895,402,34,896,278,897,898,899],"class_list":["post-13104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-abutilon","tag-camelia","tag-dont-miss","tag-iceland-poppy","tag-my-unruly-garden","tag-pansy","tag-sping-garden-san-francisco-bay-area","tag-spring-in-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}